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Followers
118.8K
Posts
7K
Following
1.4K
Account age
17 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$665 – $1.1K / sponsored post
Estimated from audience size & typical reach — every deal is negotiable and held in SocialDB escrow.
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📊 Post performance
Recent posts · views
Apr 18latest
94.5K
Avg views / post
94.4K–599.8K
Typical post (views)
79.5%
Reach vs followers
39/100
Variable reach
Apr 2009
On X since
Half of recent posts land between 94.4K and 599.8K views (median 283.8K) — reach is spiky, driven by the occasional post that pops.
🔥 Top post: 🚨🚨WE URGE EVERYONE TO UPDATE THEIR APPLE DEVICES AS SOON AS POSS · 2.2M views
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.04 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 0 video · 1 image · 17 text.
Follower / following
84×
Follows 1.4K back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Verification
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A paid X Premium (Blue) verified account.
Recent posts
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1/ NEW REPORT: Billions of advertising auctions determine in real time which ads we see on websites and in apps every day. Our latest research shows how the same data fueling this advertising ecosystem is being used to profile mil…
💬NEW REPORT: The Citizen Lab takes a deep dive into the network encryption protocol used by #WeChat, an app with over one billion users. The app uses a custom #encryption protocol called “MMTLS” that introduces cryptographic weaknesses. Re…
🚨 WE URGE ALL USERS TO UPDATE THEIR KEYBOARD APPS IMMEDIATELY 🚨
🆕 New @citizenlab report finds vulnerabilities in the security of cloud-based #pinyin #keyboard apps from vendors Baidu, Honor, iFlytek, OPPO, Samsung, Tencent, Vivo, and Xia…
🚨🚨 BIG : WE URGE ALL USERS TO UPDATE THEIR #Apple devices urgently.
@citizenlab in coordination with @Google’s TAG team found that former Egyptian MP Ahmed Eltantawy was targeted with Cytrox’s #Predator #spyware through links sent via SMS …
🚨NEW REPORT: NSO Group’s #Pegasus #Spyware returns in 2022 with a trio of iOS 15 and iOS 16 zero-click exploit chains. The report finds NSO group clients deployed exploits against civil society members including two human right defenders i…
NEW REPORT: Discovery of an extensive espionage campaign in Thailand 🇹🇭 involving the abuse of NSO Group’s #Pegasus spyware
In collaboration with @iLawFX and @DigitalReachSEA
The Citizen Lab, in collaboration with Catalan civil society groups, has identified at least 65 individuals targeted or infected with mercenary spyware.
NEW REPORT
CatalanGate: Extensive Mercenary Spyware Operation against Catalans Using Pegasus and Candiru
NEW REPORT
Project Torogoz: Extensive Hacking of Media & Civil Society in El Salvador with Pegasus Spyware
NEW REPORT
Pegasus vs. Predator: Dissident’s Doubly-Infected iPhone Reveals Cytrox Mercenary Spyware
NEW REPORT
FORCEDENTRY: NSO Group iMessage Zero-Click Exploit captured in the Wild
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined X in 2009 — 17 years ago.
👁️Averages 94.5K views per post.
📤Posts about 0× per week.
💬1.09% engagement rate.
🏅Earned the 100K Followers for passing 100K followers.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated69/100
Good
Credibility score
85%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 85% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.8× of followers engage each post) is around typical for X.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
- Established account (17+ years old).
- 1.09% engagement — below the ~2.2% typical for this size.
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Academic research unit at @UofT investigating novel threats to democracy, human rights, and global security in the digital ecosystem.
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